Black Infant Mortality: Your Generation At Risk

"The trailer that follows is a prime example of

why this college is so sorely needed."

Your Generation At Risk

Companion Lessons/Classrooms

Black Child Development Under White Supremacy / Audio, Text and Video, The Honorable Dr. Amos Wilson

RBG State of the Black America, The Masses of Our People

Myth:
Infant mortality is higher for Blacks because so many black adolescents are giving birth.
Fact:
Studies show that Black mothers lose their babies more frequently than white women regardless of age..

Myth:
Black infant mortality is high because too many black mothers are single.
Fact:
Studies of the relationship between marital status and low birth weight (an indicator of infant mortality) show that Black women had higher rates than whites regardless of their marital status.

Myth:
Black infant mortality is high because too many black mothers are uneducated.
Fact:
Studies have shown as large a disparity between Black and white women among those with college education as among less-educated women. Studies of socioeconomic status and race show that while white women tend to have improved infant mortality rates when socioeconomic status improves, Black women do not.

Myth:
It's genetic. Black infant mortality is high because of genetic differences between blacks and whites.
Fact:
Studies have shown lower incidences of infant mortality among foreign-born black women, compared to US-born Black women, suggesting a non-genetic cause.

Myth:
Black infant mortality is high because too many black mothers do not receive adequate prenatal care.
Fact:
Studies show that prenatal care offers some limited improvement in Black infant mortality rates. To be effective, studies suggest that prenatal care must also include activities to reduce those risks that are highly prevalent among Black women or unique to Black women.

The more things change the more things stay the same. It was the same story when I was in med school some 20 plus years ago. It has been the same story for the past 500 years. "But don't believe me", Listen to the former U.S. Secretary of Education Bill Bennett, who has called for the killing of all Black Babies to reduce crime.

RBG Street Scholars Think Tank teaches Us how to protect and nurture Mother Afrika. Think with me for a moment. Isn't the cause really white supremacy ? Then why do we keep on clowning in white folk cloths ? Stick with the curriculum and you'll learn why; and moreover, how to decolonize the Afrikan Mind.

Link out for further study:

"The Most Scholarly Africentric Research, Analysis and Documentation of Black Health Disparities on the Web from a civil rights/legal prespective " Race, HealthCare and the Law, Editor/ Dr.Vernellia R. Randall, Professor of Law... "

Race, Health Care and the Law, Dr.Vernellia R. Randall Prof. of Law